Role OverviewThe Lead Backend Software Engineer role adds leadership of technical design and development, complex problem resolution, guidance and support for colleagues, code and documentation reviews, and use of modern principles, methodologies, and tools to advance business initiatives.
Key Responsibilities - Creates and leads the technical design and development of software solutions.
- Proposes & designs software solutions to address complex business needs. Prepares technical and procedural documentation required.
- Facilitates complex problem resolution.
- Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues. Reviews coding, testing, and documentation of software.
- Applies modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities.
- Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
- Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support the organizations Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
- Banking operations familiarity
- Controls
- Compliance considerations
- Risk management processes
- Technical Troubleshooting - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
- Application Delivery Process - Extensive Experience
- Application Design, Architecture - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
- Application Development Tools - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
- Application Testing - Extensive Experience
- Packaged Application Integration - Subject Matter Depth and Breadth
- System Development Lifecycle - Extensive Experience
Required Qualifications/Skills - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Oracle Database
Acceptable alternatives:
Cloud Technologies
- Preferred - OpenShift (Red Hat)
- Acceptable Alternative - AWS
- Application Development
- Design and architecture familiarity/experience
- Business and Team Management
- Group Problem Solving
- Customer Engagement and Solutions Oriented
Preferred Qualifications- Banking experience
- Financial institution experience
- Understanding regulatory and risk controls
Locations: Birmingham, AL
